At Robert Bloomfield Academy we are proud of our school ethos encompassing Community, Opportunity and Excellence. We want our House system to reflect the proud history and culture of Bedfordshire, along with the vision and the values of our Academy. We have therefore decided to base our House system on the four local people who not only embody our school ethos, but who inspired generations with their resilience and aspiration: Harold Abrahams, Alan Turing, Mary Norton and Glenn Miller.

Each House  consists of 8 tutor groups and will be supported by a Head of House. Heads of House will work closely with Form Tutors to ensure that the students in each House have the opportunity to excel and contribute.

Our House system is designed to encourage an ethos of reward and competition. Each year, the houses will compete for the House Trophy.  Students will gain points for their House through good attendance; good effort and achievement in their work; by contributing positively to the life of Robert Bloomfield Academy; or by competing in one of the many House competitions we will run each year.

We have Facebook and Twitter accounts for each House.

Another aim of Robert Bloomfield’s House system is for each House to run events to help support their chosen charity. Our focus – reflecting RBA’s ethos, Vitality, Opportunity, Independence, Community and Excellence, is to raise money for local charities to support our community and to work together to help others.

This year, ALL four Houses will be supporting the same two charities - the ‘Caraline Charity’ https://caraline.com/ and the ‘Ronald Mcdonald House Charity’ https://rmhc.org.uk/. This is the first time all four Houses have supported the same charities but we have a very important reason for doing so. We sadly lost a very beloved member of the RBA and Shefford community unexpectedly earlier in the year – Mr Steve Fox, who was previously Head of School at RBA. These two charities were chosen by his wife, as the charities to make contributions to at his funeral. We hope to raise as much money as possible, to support these two very special charities which are very close to the families’ hearts.